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About Reducing the Size of an Integration Object

The number of integration components and their related fields can greatly affect the performance of reports, especially reports that are run on large data sets. It is recommended that you limit the fields in integration objects to only those fields that necessary for report generation. Large integration objects increase the time necessary for the XMLP Component to extract data through Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and increases the size of the resulting XML used by Oracle BI Publisher Server for report generation. Large integration objects can also affect performance when rendering the report if the report template includes logic to extract, aggregate, or reference elements in the XML.

Adhere to the following guidelines:

• Avoid creating a large integration objects that might be shared by many different reports, if the integration object contains many fields. Create individual integration objects for each report to improve performance.
• Deactivate any fields that are not required. When using the EAI Siebel Wizard to create an integration object, be aware that the wizard adds all fields from the business component.